From thegeekstuff.com When I drafted this article, I really came-up with 7 sysadmin habits. But, out of those 7 habits, three really stood out for me. While habits are good,…

From webupd8.org TestDrive is an Ubuntu application that is especially designed for non-technical users to easily download and run the latest Ubuntu development daily snapshot in a virtual machine. TestDrive…

From http://cloudstudy.hostpo.net/

Practically every cloud computing provider – from Google to Rackspace, Amazon to Salesforce.com – has suffered through an outage at some point. When outages happen, skeptics question the viability of cloud computing.

Talk to anyone invested in the cloud, though, and it doesn’t take long to understand that outages are just one of the costs of doing business in the cloud, and . . . well, so what?

Outages happen with pretty much every service we consume. Apple is enjoying record profits, even as the iPhone 4 drops calls at an alarming rate. Where are the stories questioning the viability of smartphones or the iPhone or Apple?

Outages happen in on-premise data centers everywhere. Where are the stories questioning the viability of in-house IT? (Actually, those stories are out there, but they all ask if cloud computing is making traditional IT obsolete.) When was the last time your power went out? Did you question the viability of utility-provided electricity?

There’s only so much you can do in an outage – backup generators (or in the case of the cloud, backed up data) help, but they don’t solve the problem. Outages are the service provider’s problem, not yours.

With other common failures, however, the customer takes a much more active role in determining success or failure. Here are some of the most common mistakes organizations make as they embrace the cloud.

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From mynitor.com Every once in awhile I find myself looking around for an rpm command to provide info on a specific thing such as displaying installed location of all files…

From blogs.pcworld.co.nz Hidden Linux : agt-get secrets apt-get is the package handling utility behind Debian-based Linux systems such as Ubuntu, Mint and Mepis. You may be using it ‘by proxy’…

From linuxpoison.blogspot.com Inundator - IDS/IPS/WAF Evasion & Flooding Tool Inundator is a multi-threaded, queue-driven, IDS evasion tool. Its purpose is to anonymously flood intrusion detection systems (specifically Snort) with traffic…

From linuxpoison.blogspot.com It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies…